Thank you very much, Nancy, from Moscow. I still remember how good my county was and we'll reborn. Glad to be not alone and you're paying and singing very nice
I remember, as a union activist, that it was always important to identify the listeners as "Comrades", and then scan their faces. You could tell immediately who wasn't a comrade. This performance, and the comments, reminds me that there are still comrades out there.
THOSE LIVES AND THEIR WORKS WILL NOT BE IN VAIN,I FEEL THEIR SPIRTS, AS I LISTEN TO THIER SONGS, I FEEL ALL THEIR PAIN I SEE THE VISION OF THE WORLD WE WANT, THE HOPE HERE IS NOT YET LOST. THOUGH OUR DAYS ARE MUCH DARKER, AND THE POWER GAP IS TOO MUCH TO BEAR, BUT TO GIVE UP IS NOT WHAT THEY'D WANT, TO THEIR LIVES DISHONOR IT"D BE, SO I WILL NOT STOP, I'LL FIGHT UNTILL THE DAY WE ARE FREE TO YA'LL WHO HAVE NOTHING TO BELIVE, TO Y'ALL WHOSE MOTTO IS MONEY COMES FIRST, WHO ARE YA'LL TO SAY THEIR LIVES HAVE BEEN WASTED ALL THAT THEY FOUGHT FOR WILL NOT TURN TO DUST!
A fantastic song, covered by a fantastic artist. Thank you for this. I can see why some people think it's sad, but it lights a fire in me. We can't let the sacrifices of people like him be in vain.
Thanks from an old Communist ...The struggle to build a revolutionary communist party is the task we must complete. Honour to the Soviet revolution and its modern day re imagining and rebirth.
Rebuild it it will fall again. And on the day of its collapses, the harvester of sorrow will play in the next generation's ears that had to deal with your actions of ignorance just as it did before and once more, you will be seen as a trick from the elite used to misguide fools in love with dreams
Great cover by Nancy Kerr of an absolute classic by Rosselson! RUclips suggested this in the midst of one of my regular listens to Billy Bragg's version of the song. Bragg was my introduction to Rosselson, as well as a lot of other classic left wing anthems. It falls into that strange category of beautiful and well-written songs, that are just so powerful and cover such subject matter, that they can be a bit hard to listen to. As I got older and discovered more kinds of music, it was a revelation to find that a song can be hard to listen to not because it's bad, but rather a song can be just so GOOD at conveying emotion, and so POWERFUL, that it punches you right in the feels. If you're mourning the loss of a nation, an ideaology, and a time in history... Even while you celebrate the accomplishments and the good... while mourning the terrible cost and dreaming over a better world... and you're feeling all of that due to the songwriter's lyrical poetry and the evocative delivery of this emotion by the singer... then I'd call you a music nerd! The lyrics are so deep, and there's enough complexity in the way it sort of hints at, then delivers, and then calls back in reference to each verse, that you can just keep listening for months or years and find new little details. Much like the Soviet Union itself, there's a lot of beauty and things to admire, and good ideas. But there's also a very sad, and very hard edged side of it, with the memory of any good the union accomplished mostly overshadowed by the weight of it's own mistakes and abuses of the people. Life is so complex, and history so complex, that only a complex song like this can do justice to these ideas. Most people online seem to believe they have to either worship the very idea of the USSR and 'communism', as the best thing to happen to humanity and perfect in every way. Or it must be relentlessly demonized as the work of satan, with ZERO positive ideas or contributions to the world. Hell if I know any of the answers! But at least I have a cool soundtrack for while I try to figure it out.
I much regret missing Leon play at the Rose & Crown in Walthamstow, though I did get to see Nancy with James Fagan. Well done with this version Nancy, though (of course), Leon does have a special passion and personal connection when he performs this song. Wonderful song project and, er, a real highlight of May 2020!
Rosselson's original song as well as Nancy's delivey is so good, and so effective at bumming me out while also making me think, that I'm gonna go have to listen to something a bit more upbeat and goofy so as not to despair next... maybe Bustin' by Neil Ciecirega... Wouldn't It Be Nice by the Beach Boys.. Spiderwebs by No Doubt... Weed Is Got Me High by Three Six Mafia... It's like when you read some depressing news story online, and then have to go see goofy pictures of cats if you're going to talk yourself out of despair. But I digress... i tend to do that! Anyway, I'm pretty stoked to see a suggested playlist with a Leon Rosselson Song A Day. I generally try to only listen to left wing political music on the days of the week ending with the letter 'Y'. Don't tell the comrades, but I might actually find myself listening to MORE than one of them per day! This is the first time I've heard Nancy Kerr, but DEFINITELY won't be the last. Her voice is every bit as great as her choice of songs. I'm hoping to one day become agitprop commissar for the central Asian Soviet Republics, and this song might be precisely the inspiration that I need! Seriously though, good stuff Nancy!
Nancy didn’t you sing on some of Leon’s albums or was it a relative? I remember a woman with the surname Kerr in several credits but to my shame have mislaid the first name! Beautiful work anyway.
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one of my favourite songs and I love your cover of it, thanks comrade :)
Thank you very much, Nancy, from Moscow. I still remember how good my county was and we'll reborn. Glad to be not alone and you're paying and singing very nice
Thank you for covering this song so beautifully. It never fails to bring a tear to my eye. Thank you!
I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying!
A beautiful woman singining a beautiful song for a beautiful cause.
Amazing guitar skills
I remember, as a union activist, that it was always important to identify the listeners as "Comrades", and then scan their faces. You could tell immediately who wasn't a comrade. This performance, and the comments, reminds me that there are still comrades out there.
My family history…for which I owe them much love and respect .
THOSE LIVES AND THEIR WORKS WILL NOT BE IN VAIN,I FEEL THEIR SPIRTS, AS I LISTEN TO THIER SONGS, I FEEL ALL THEIR PAIN I SEE THE VISION OF THE WORLD WE WANT, THE HOPE HERE IS NOT YET LOST. THOUGH OUR DAYS ARE MUCH DARKER, AND THE POWER GAP IS TOO MUCH TO BEAR, BUT TO GIVE UP IS NOT WHAT THEY'D WANT, TO THEIR LIVES DISHONOR IT"D BE, SO I WILL NOT STOP, I'LL FIGHT UNTILL THE DAY WE ARE FREE
TO YA'LL WHO HAVE NOTHING TO BELIVE, TO Y'ALL WHOSE MOTTO IS MONEY COMES FIRST, WHO ARE YA'LL TO SAY THEIR LIVES HAVE BEEN WASTED ALL THAT THEY FOUGHT FOR WILL NOT TURN TO DUST!
A fantastic song, covered by a fantastic artist. Thank you for this.
I can see why some people think it's sad, but it lights a fire in me. We can't let the sacrifices of people like him be in vain.
I've never heard this song before and I am gutted by it.
I rarely cry but when I first heard this song it instant had me weeping
Thanks from an old Communist ...The struggle to build a revolutionary communist party is the task we must complete. Honour to the Soviet revolution and its modern day re imagining and rebirth.
Here here, comrade! ✊🏼
Rebuild it it will fall again.
And on the day of its collapses, the harvester of sorrow will play in the next generation's ears that had to deal with your actions of ignorance just as it did before and once more, you will be seen as a trick from the elite used to misguide fools in love with dreams
haven't heard Nancy since seeing her play live with Eliza Carthy in the early 90s. Doesn't time fly.. great cover
I wish I could like this video every time I listen to.... and I listen to it 3-4 times a day. One day we will listen to it triumphantly....
Could you possibly do a tutorial? im sure its alot to ask and its been 3 years but i would love to know how to play something so beautiful
Communists have the best music.
Incredible voice and such brilliant words.
One of my all time favourite Leon songs. I love your interpretation. Love it that you’re doing so many of Leon’s songs💚🇵🇸
Great cover by Nancy Kerr of an absolute classic by Rosselson! RUclips suggested this in the midst of one of my regular listens to Billy Bragg's version of the song. Bragg was my introduction to Rosselson, as well as a lot of other classic left wing anthems. It falls into that strange category of beautiful and well-written songs, that are just so powerful and cover such subject matter, that they can be a bit hard to listen to. As I got older and discovered more kinds of music, it was a revelation to find that a song can be hard to listen to not because it's bad, but rather a song can be just so GOOD at conveying emotion, and so POWERFUL, that it punches you right in the feels.
If you're mourning the loss of a nation, an ideaology, and a time in history... Even while you celebrate the accomplishments and the good... while mourning the terrible cost and dreaming over a better world... and you're feeling all of that due to the songwriter's lyrical poetry and the evocative delivery of this emotion by the singer... then I'd call you a music nerd! The lyrics are so deep, and there's enough complexity in the way it sort of hints at, then delivers, and then calls back in reference to each verse, that you can just keep listening for months or years and find new little details.
Much like the Soviet Union itself, there's a lot of beauty and things to admire, and good ideas. But there's also a very sad, and very hard edged side of it, with the memory of any good the union accomplished mostly overshadowed by the weight of it's own mistakes and abuses of the people. Life is so complex, and history so complex, that only a complex song like this can do justice to these ideas.
Most people online seem to believe they have to either worship the very idea of the USSR and 'communism', as the best thing to happen to humanity and perfect in every way. Or it must be relentlessly demonized as the work of satan, with ZERO positive ideas or contributions to the world. Hell if I know any of the answers! But at least I have a cool soundtrack for while I try to figure it out.
Greetings from Indonesia
I much regret missing Leon play at the Rose & Crown in Walthamstow, though I did get to see Nancy with James Fagan. Well done with this version Nancy, though (of course), Leon does have a special passion and personal connection when he performs this song. Wonderful song project and, er, a real highlight of May 2020!
❤️ one of my favourite songs...can’t tell you how much your project has meant to me...thank you for everything
Based and on repeat
Brilliant vocal performance, this!
Love this one. There's a lot of longing and loss in every single line, if not word.
Lovely song
From one comrade to another: Bravo.
An all-time favorite
we failed once, we won't fail again. you haven't seen a struggle if you haven't fought a red
Well said, comrade!
Ultimately the workers will prevail!
Wonderful....what an incredible musician and singer you are Nancy
i needed this today... thank you comrade.
Thank you so much Nancy. You have given us something to look forward to each day. Nancy and Barry Forster
lovely lovely Mz Kerr
Just found this, you have such a lovely voice, thanks for your cover comrade
Pretty song Pretty girl grate cover
Magnifique! Félicitations!
Well done! A beautiful version of a beautiful song. Thankyou.
So good
Rosselson's original song as well as Nancy's delivey is so good, and so effective at bumming me out while also making me think, that I'm gonna go have to listen to something a bit more upbeat and goofy so as not to despair next... maybe Bustin' by Neil Ciecirega... Wouldn't It Be Nice by the Beach Boys.. Spiderwebs by No Doubt... Weed Is Got Me High by Three Six Mafia... It's like when you read some depressing news story online, and then have to go see goofy pictures of cats if you're going to talk yourself out of despair. But I digress... i tend to do that!
Anyway, I'm pretty stoked to see a suggested playlist with a Leon Rosselson Song A Day. I generally try to only listen to left wing political music on the days of the week ending with the letter 'Y'. Don't tell the comrades, but I might actually find myself listening to MORE than one of them per day! This is the first time I've heard Nancy Kerr, but DEFINITELY won't be the last. Her voice is every bit as great as her choice of songs. I'm hoping to one day become agitprop commissar for the central Asian Soviet Republics, and this song might be precisely the inspiration that I need! Seriously though, good stuff Nancy!
Nancy didn’t you sing on some of Leon’s albums or was it a relative? I remember a woman with the surname Kerr in several credits but to my shame have mislaid the first name! Beautiful work anyway.
I think that was Sandra Kerr, Nancy's mother, who sang on Leon's albums, though Nancy may have done so as well.
What guitar tuning are you using?
John Hinton always DADGAD for me.
Nancy Kerr Music Ah, lovely. I did wonder - you make it sound very good!
Old for a commie is like 45